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Quote from Doug Bandow,


"Being paid by the government to shelve books in a library, whether as an employee or as an Americorps member, is no more laudable or valuable than being paid by Crown Books to stock bookshelves in a bookstore. A host of private-sector jobs provide enormous public benefits—consider health care professionals, medical and scientific researchers, entrepreneurs, inventors, and artists. Many of these people earn less than they could in alternative work; they have chosen to serve in their own way. Yet government programs that equate public employment with service to society effectively denigrate service through private employment."


By:

Doug Bandow (more quotes by Doug Bandow or books by/about Doug Bandow)


(1954- ) American columnist, author, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute

Source:

National Service -- or Government Service?, Policy Review, p. 34, September-October, 1996

Categories:

Government, Jobs, Labor

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